Elementymology & Elements Multidict

Elements Multidict

In the Multilingual dictionary of the names of chemical elements you will find lists and periodical tables of elements in many languages. Clicking on the name of an element in those lists or table brings you to the element information page. On this element page a list of names of that element in different languages, the etymology of its name and some other information is given.
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English: Periodic table of the elementsEnglish: West Germanic language, official language of Great Britian, United States, Australia and many other counties.
First language of 300-400 million people.

Føroysk: Skeiðbundna skipan frumevnannaFaroese: Faroese or Faeroese, West Nordic or West Scandinavian language spoken by 48,000 people in the Faroe Islands and about 25,000 Faroese in Denmark and elsewhere.

Norsk: Grunnstoffenes periodiske systemNorwegian: North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway. The language includes two official written forms:
Bokmål ("Book language", the majority (c. 90%) written form)
Nynorsk (literally "New Norwegian", a written form of the language created in the 19th century from traditional Norwegian dialects, and used by about 10% of the population of Norway).
For the elements, only the name for Copper differs in both forms: Kobber in Bokmål and Kopar in Nynorsk.
5 million speakers.

Italic

Aragonés: Tabla periodica d'os elementosAragonese: Romance language spoken in a number of local varieties over the valleys of the Aragón River, Sobrarbe and Ribagorza in Aragon.
Between 10,000 and 30,000 speakers

Català: Taula periòdica dels elementsCatalan: Romance language, the national and official language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community.
7.7 million speakers

Français: Tableau périodique des élémentsFrench: Romance language globally spoken by about 110 million people as a first language, mainly in France, Québec, Switzerland, Belgium, and French speaking Africa.

Lumbaart: Taula periòdica dii elemeentLombard: Member of the Cisalpine or Gallo-Italic group within the Romance languages. It is spoken natively in Northern Italy and Southern Switzerland (names written in koiné uçidentala, urtugrafìa ünificada).
3.5 million speakers.

Lenga d'òc: Taula periodicaOccitan: Romance language spoken in Occitania, that is, Southern France, the Occitan Valleys of Italy, Monaco and in the Aran Valley of Spain.
Between 1 and 3.7 million speakers.

Română - Moldovenească: Tabelul periodic al elementelorRomanian - Moldovan: Romanian and Moldovan (Moldavian) Romance language spoken primarily in Romania and Moldova. It has official status in Romania, Republic of Moldova, and the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia. Romanian and Moldovan are identical, but for political reasons both names are in use.
24 million speakers.

Slavic

Bosanski: Periodni sistem elemenataBosnian: South Slavic language spoken primarily in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The language uses the Latin alphabet although the Cyrillic alphabet is also accepted.
2,700,000 speakers.

Kaszëbsczi: Cządowi ùstôw pierwińcòwKashubian: Kashubian or Cassubian, one of the Lechitic languages, a subgroup of the Slavic languages, spoken by 50,000 people in Pomerania (Northern Poland).

Македонски: Периоден систем на елементите[Perioden sistem na elementite]Macedonian: Official language of Republic of Macedonia and part of the Eastern group of South Slavic languages.
Written in Cyrillic script.
2.3 – 3 million speakers.

Српски: Периодни систем елемената[Periodin sistem na elemenata]Serbian: South Slavic language, spoken chiefly in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia.
Written in Cyrillic and in Latin script.
Over 12 million speakers.

Українска: Періодична система елементів[Periodična sistema elementiv]Ukrainian: Language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine.
Written in Cyrillic script.
Approximately 42 up to 47 million speakers.

Gaelg Vanninagh: Taabyl reiltagh ny bunstooghynGaelic (Manx): Goidelic language spoken on the Isle of Man.
Extinct, but since 1974 revived and now with about a hundred competent speakers, including a small number of children who are new native speakers. 1,689 people (2.2% total population) professing some knowledge of the language.

Indo-Iranian/Iranian

Иронау: Элементты периодон системæOssetian: East Iranian language spoken in Ossetia, a region on the slopes of the Caucasus Mountains.
Written in the Cyrillic alphabet.
c. 525,000 speakers.

Тоҷикӣ: Ҷадвали даврии элементҳои химиявӣTajik: Modern variety of Persian spoken in Central Asia. Most speakers of Tajik live in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Tajik is the official language of Tajikistan and is written in Cyrillic script.
Approximately 4,380,000 speakers.

Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan

বাংলা:পব়্যায় সাব়ণী[pawyāẏa sābawī]Bengali: Eastern Indo-Aryan language, native to Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam.
Written in Bengali script.
Nearly 230 million speakers.

ગુજશતી: આવર્ત કોષ્ટક[āvart koṣṭaka]Gujarati: Gujarātī, an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 46 million people in the Indian states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh.
Written in Gujarati script.
46.1 million speakers.

हिन्दी: आवर्त सारणी[āvrta sāraṇī]Hindi: Indo-Aryan language, or a dialect continuum of languages, spoken in northern and central India.
Written in devanagari script.
~ 490 million speakers.

Олык Марий: Химий тӱҥлык-влакын периодик радамлыкше[Himij tüŋlək-vlakən periodik radamləkše]Mari: The Mari language is spoken primarily in the Mari Republic of the Russian Federation and belongs to the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family.
600,000 speakers.

Мокшень кяль: Менделеевинь арафнималувсь[Mendeleevinj arafnimaluvsj]Moksha: Member of the Finno-Volgaic subdivision of the Uralic languages and the majority language in the western part of Mordovia (a federal republic in central Russia).
Written in Cyrillic characters.
About 500,000 native speakers.

Монгол: Химийн элементүүдийн үелэх систем[Himijn èlementüüdijn üelèh sistem]Mongolian: Best-known member of the Mongolic language family. It has about 5.7 million speakers, including over 90% of the residents of Mongolia and many of the Mongolian residents of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China.
Written in Cyrillic script.

ئۇيغۇرچە: ئېلېمېنتلارنىڭ دەۋرىي جەەدۋىلى['elementlirning devriy jeedvili]Uyghur: Uyghur is a Turkic language with about 10 million speakers mainly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
Traditionally written with the Arabic script. The Chinese government introduced a Roman script in 1969, but the Arabic script was reintroduced in 1983, and the Cyrillic script currently used in the former Soviet Union

O'zbekcha: Unsurlarning davriy jadvaliUzbek: Turkic language and the official language of Uzbekistan.
The Latin script has been officially re-introduced, although the use of Cyrillic is still widespread (most of the 'new' element names are transcriptions from the Cyrillic names in Russion).
About 23.5 million native speakers.

Afro-Asiatic

العربية: الجدول الدوري الحديثArabic: Arabic is the largest member of the Semitic language family. It is spoken by more than 280 million people as a first language, most of whom live in the Middle East and North Africa, and by 250 million more as a second language.
Written in Arabic script.

עברית: הטבלה המחזוריתHebrew: Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Hebrew in its modern form is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel.
Written in Hebrew script.

Sino-Tibetan

Hak-kâ-fa: Hien-thoi Ngièn-su Tsû-khì-péuHakka: Hakka or Kejia is one of the main subdivisions of the Chinese language spoken predominantly in southern China by the Hakka people and descendants in diaspora throughout East and Southeast Asia and around the world.
34 million speakers.

日本語: 元素の周期表[genso no shuukihyou]Japanese: Japonic language spoken mainly in Japan.
The Japanese language is written with a combination of three scripts: modified Chinese characters called kanji (漢字), and two syllabic scripts made up of modified Chinese characters, hiragana (ひらがな or 平仮名) and katakana (カタカナ or 片仮名).
130 million speakers.

한국어: 주기율표의 원소를 클릭하세요Korean: Official language of Korea, both South and North.
Written in Hangul, the Korean alphabet
78 million speakers.

ไทย: ตารางธาตุThai: Official language of Thailand.
Written in the Thai alphabet.
60-64 million speakers.

Other Asiatic

മലയാളം: ആവര്‍ത്തനപ്പട്ടിക[Āvarttanappaṭṭika]Malayalam: one of the four major Dravidian languages of South India and official language in the state of Kerala.
36 million speakers.

தமிழ்: ஆவர்த்தன அட்டவணை[āvarttana aţţavaņai]Tamil: Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Puducherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore.
Tamil is written its own script.
66 million speakers.

Africa

Lingála: Etánda ya bilekoLingala: Bantu language spoken throughout the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) and a large part of the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville).
ca. 2 million native speakers, between 8 and 30 million second-language speakers

Sesotho: Dielemente tsa tafole ya periodikiSesotho: Sesotho or Southern Sotho, a Bantu language spoken primarily in South Africa, where it is one the 11 official languages, and in Lesotho, where it is the national language.
At least 5 million speakers.

kiSwahili: Mfumo radidia wa elementiSwahili: Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Indian Ocean coastline from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique, including the Comoros Islands. Swahili is also a lingua franca of much of East Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
5-10 million speakers

North-America

Nāhuatl: Tlapēuhcāyōtl nemachiyōtīlpāntliNahuatl: group of related languages and dialects of the Nahuan (traditionally called 'Aztecan') branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Collectively they are spoken by an estimated 1.5 million Nahua people, most of whom live in Central Mexico.

Dorseyville Students:Dorseyville Students Periodic table of the elementsDorseyville: New names given by the students of Team 8D of the Dorseyville Middle School, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2001.
Their new element names reflect one of the properties of that particular element More information

In the element files the Cyrillic names are transcribed also in Latin characters accoding to the ISO/R 9 standard, and the Greek names following the standard Elot 743.

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